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OH 1295

About the Interviewee

IntervieweeWILLEY, Lloyd (b. 1914)
Military ServiceU.S. Marine Corps WWII Veteran
Notable infosurvivor of the sinking of the USS Houston

About this oral history

Interview ID #OH 1295
Date(s) of interview
DescriptionSurvivor of the sinking of the USS Houston. His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Sinking of the Houston, 1942; capture and imprisonment at Serang, Java; Bicycle Camp, Batavia, 1942; Changi Prison Camp, Singapore, 1942; building the Burma-Thailand Death Railway, 1942-44; Tamarkan, Thailand, 1944; Nakhon Pathom and Phet Buri, Burma, 1944-45; liberation.
Interviewer(s)Ronald E. Marcello
Physical Description232 pp. plus documents (56 pp.)
Terms of UseOpen